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Firewalling through Linuxconf

I was just playing with Linuxconf, and I noticed that it is possible to set up IP routing rules through it, instead of manually putting "ipchains" statements in rc.local. Now I just need to find out where does Linuxconf put this information?
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IP routing rules just specify how to get someplace. They don't provide any actual network security, for that you need ipchains and all that goes with it.
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jlevie: It is called "firewalling" and there are some of the same options as with ipchains such as masquerading, blocking packets, forwarding packets etc. Have you tried doing this before? The reason I ask is to me it seems that its just a GUI for the ipchains commands. Even if I'm wrong, all I wanted to know is which files does the "firewalling" setup under Linuxconf modify?
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You probably know this already but :
Most people create an rc.firewall file with all of the routing and IPCHAINS cmnds then change rc.local so that it runs the rc.firewall script.

Don't know anything about linuxconf though...
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jlevie: Thanks, but I think you're right. It just makes things more confusing. I think I will go back to the ipchains commands.